I say reform the Reds with a rope.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Front Page (1974) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:33:08 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Baloney.

- Williams isn't a Red and you know it.

- He's just a screwball who had the lousy luck to shoot a colored cop in an election year.

- Now I want you fellas to tell it loud and clear that the death warrant for Earl Williams is a death warrant for all the radical elements in this town.

- Not again, Pete.

- I say reform the Reds with a rope.

- Can I quote you on that, Sheriff?

- Certainly, my boy.

- Sheriff Hartman pledges to reform the Reds with a rope.

- That's worth a good 600000 votes.

- Plus a couple of 100000 colored votes, so when that baby drops through the trap, you guys are a shoo-in.

- Are you implying that the Mayor and I are playing politics with a man's life?

[...]

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